Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1910 — LEFT AND RIGHT TELEPHONES. [ARTICLE]

LEFT AND RIGHT TELEPHONES.

“Hello*' Girl's Little Hint May ProVe of Value to Yoa In Pnture. “Right-handed people invariably put a telephone receiver up to their left ear and left-handed people to their ’“hello” girls. “We girls get to be psychologists In a small way by talking over the telephone every day. It is impossible to keep from sizing up> and classifying the people on the other end of the wire, simply oq a basis of what they say and hew they say It. There are almost as many ways of -.talking Into a telephone as there are Kinds of people who use the telephone. But It Is, nevertheless, rattier easy to classify them. One thing I have noticed is that the vast majority t f people, being right-handed, hold tho receiver in their left hand. The-left ear, by long distance, thus becomes more acute and well trained. Consequently, when for any reason, a man or woman takes the receiver In his «r her right hand, It Is comparatively easy to sense It at my end. The man Is apt to speak nervohsly and disjointedly, to talk too loud and to ask me to frequently repeat, showing that his ear—his wrong) ear —is not serving him with such fidelity and accuracy as his more accustomed left. I had great difficulty in hearing a woman once, and so I asked: ‘You are lefthanded, aren’t you?’ ‘Yes,’ she gasped. ‘Then don’t hold' tie telephone quite so close to your mouth and put the receiver against your other ear.’ She did, and we were able to hear eaeh other perfectly.”